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Crystal Clear Views from the 1890s

Chickamauga Dam - Completed 1-18-1940

1889 Plat Maps of Chattanooga fully digitized

The Chattanoogan who transformed journalism

1914 Plat Book of Chattanooga and Vicinity

Harry's Place

Dixie Cups - Social Norms - and the Grandfather of AutoZone

Onion Bottom

Cave Springs, TN

Japanese Tea Party 1924

1909 vs. 2022

Kelley's Raiders

Market Square

Forty Square Miles of History

A look back with unique and memorable photos

Richardson Building

Montgomery Avenue

Our Coca-Cola Legacy

Second Presbyterian Celebrates 150 Years

CHA Airport and Flyers Club History

Never before shared views of Cameron Hill's former residents.

A large congregation at Alton Park in 1933.

Aerial view from 1970 vs. 2021

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Glass St. and Boyce Street Car

The Vote for Public Power - March 12, 1935

Who Will Tell Our Story?

The rediscovered origin of a home in Hill City.

Forty students named from an 1899 class photo.

In 1926, the city's Commissioner of Streets and future 5-term mayor defeated Georgia's blockade of Broad Street.

Past vs. Present View - 3200 block of Brainerd Road

A new found detailed view from the winter of 1863-64.

A mostly forgotten story of embattled judges, sheriffs, and the county commissioners who went to jail for the cause

Fifteen remarkable photos from a long-forgotten picnic destination.

Early aviation promotor Ben King kept a scrapbook during his time at Chattanooga's first commercial airport - Marr

EPB began serving Chattanooga as The Electric Power Board in 1939. Its backstory is a unique and fascinating view.

People, porches, and the origin of Lindsay Street

A timely look back at the construction of the I-75/24 Split at Chattanooga

Almost forgotten: The King's Bridge 1872-1917

Historic documents reveal facts about the early settlers of Ross's Landing

1928 Chattanooga Times Jubilee Edition

1889 vs. 2018

James Point from Bradys Point 1913

Chattanooga 1886 Flood

Southside Aerial View 1969

View East from the Roof of the Chattanooga Brewing Company

unknown location

421 Houston Street

Walking the Baby Down Douglas Street

Lula Falls

Alton Park - Hardtmuth's Cedar Works

Rooftop Photography Studio

Glass Plate Negatives - Set 9

1904 Spring Festival Program

Cadek Choral Society

Bank Checks of Lewis M. Coleman

History Uncovered

Jacksonville Great Fire of 1901

Tomlison's Restaurant Brainerd

W 23rd at S. Market

Cherokee at Frazier

North Market Street

Union Station

Westside Redevelopment

Downtown

Cameron Hill

Broad at 9th Street

The Big Scramble

Brainerd Rd. at Spring Creek Rd.

Bachman Tunnels

11th at Market St.

Perry Mayo Donation

1913 Confederate Reunion

Standard Coosa Thatcher

Standard Coosa Thatcher

Standard Coosa Thatcher

Standard Coosa Thatcher

Standard Coosa Thatcher

Standard Coosa Thatcher

Lake Winnepesaukah

Standard Coosa Thatcher

Standard Coosa Thatcher

Standard Coosa Thatcher

Lake Winnepesaukah

Standard Coosa Thatcher

Old West Side School

The Olgiati Bridge Dedication

The Olgiati Bridge Dedication

Howard School

McCallie Ave.

Market Street Bridge

Market Street at Main Street

801 McCallie Ave. IBM

801 McCallie Ave. IBM

View toward Cameron Hill from the Provident Insurance building

4th and Walnut St.

Georgia Ave. at 4th

Perry Mayo Donation

Roosevelt at Chickamauga Dam 1938

unknown location

Downtown - Looking East

Chattanooga & St. Louis Freight Depot

St. Elmo

View Across the Rail Yards

View from Grant University

William H. Stokes Collection 2

1962: 100th Anniversary of Andrews' Raid

1925 The Provident Building

Miniature Museum

Trinity-Woodmore Methodist Church

Texan Restaurant

End of the line

A canyon of streetlights and neon in the Summer of 1964

Market St. View 1963

First Christian Church Demolition

Shoney's of Hixson

Zayre

Armed Forces Day Parade

Brock Candy Co.

Brock Candy Co.

Power for Peace

McKee Bakery

Mike's BBQ

Northbound Dixie Flyer - 1953

Ridgedale 1962

VW Dealership 1965

WDEF-TV 1954

Ridgedale Turnip

Chattanooga Neon & Electric Co.

Loveman's 1960

Wonderful Twins

Big 4 Bike Shop

Market Street Bridge 1953

Fire Safety!

Liggett Drugs

Riverview Dairy Gold

Trotter Pontiac

Furlow-Cate Ford

The Goat Man

Library Construction

Schroeder's

Army Day Parade 1947

Brainerd Cleaners

Camp Joy

Autumn Harvest on Waldens Ridge

Bicentennial Plates

Moskin's

Doctor Shock

Eastgate Mall

Racial divisions

Rogers Theater Fire

Hawks v Jazz

Holsum Bakery

Jackie Mitchell

1966 - 8.4" snowfall

Fowler Brothers Co.

Julia Belle Swain

Soap Box Derby

Gordon C. Greene

OK Used Cars

Miller Park

Hixson High School Color Guard

Pro-Re-Bona Day Nursery

Bill Battle

UTC Cheerleaders

Almost lost - Walnut Street Bridge

Shared view of Glass Street

McDonald Farm Ice Cream

Incline Drug and Surgical Co.

East Lake Junior High

RED FOOD STORE

Rogers Theater

Helen Jones School of Dance 1965

LeGrand Jewelry Co. - 604 Market St.

North Market at Frazier

Uncle Herman's Chattanooga Shoe Store

First Corvette sold in Chattanooga - 1953

White Oak School 1965

Have a Coke 1953

Carver Memorial Hospital

White Oak Hardware

Rossville Blvd. 1960

Rev. Billy Graham at Engle Stadium

History in color - Nov. 17, 1959

Putt Putt Golf - Hixson

The Read House

Kay's Kastles

Shared photos in 2020

Signal Crest UMC

Dairy Gold of Valdeau

Clemons Dining Room

Beauties in a boat

Sears Downtown

Totten Discount Furniture House

Home Stores

Dairy Gold of Brainerd

Fountain of Youth

1947 Diner

Riverfront '89

May Pole dancers - 1964

Train and cart

Near Bridgeport, AL

Near Bridgeport, AL

TVA Complex

P. R. Olgiati

TVA Project Ocoee

East Lake 1910

Chattanooga Railway and Light ID

Scholze Tannery

Scholze Tannery

Scholze Tannery

Scholze Tannery

Scholze Tannery

Scholze Tannery

Scholze Tannery

Second Missionary Baptist Church

Second Missionary Baptist Church

Second Missionary Baptist Church

Second Missionary Baptist Church

Second Missionary Baptist Church

Tannery Flats Industrial District

Dayton Pike

A very early view of Chattanooga

View East from the Customs House

Signal Mountain Road and Trolley

Market Street 1916

From Point Park

1st Baptist Church & Grant Univ.

Georgia Ave.

West 9th Street looking East

St. Elmo

Bluff Street

W Road - Signal Mountain

Central Ave.

From Missionary Ridge looking West

William H. Stokes Collection

unknown location

C.C. Shelton Flour Mill

Chattanooga National Cemetery

Behind the Lookout Mtn. Inn

Chattanooga High School

Chattanooga High School

Chattanooga High School

Glass Plate Negatives - Set 8

Market St. Commercial Real Estate History

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unknown location

unknown location

New Iron Bridge

Camp Dewey - Nashville

The New W Road

Glass Plate Negatives - Set 7

1967 - A Kodachrome Time Capsule

View from the Chattanooga Brewery

Wonderful Dynamo of Dixie - WDOD Radio

Glass Plate Negatives - Set 6

unknown location

unknown location

unknown location

unknown location

unknown location

Woodlawn Heights 1969

Glass Plate Negatives - Set 5

unknown location

unknown location

Charles Walline

Corruption of Youth

Incline #2

704 East 4th Street

Chattanooga Times Free Press - Glass Plates

Guns and Melons

unknown location

unknown location

unknown location

unknown location

Southern Express

Camp Thomas

Million Dollar Bridge

Glass Plate Negatives - Set 4

Photo in a Photo

Market Street at 9th

Camp Thomas, 1898

704 East 4th Street

Chattanooga Fire Dept. - 1920

Glass Plate Negatives - Set 3

unknown location

Picking Peaches

23 Payne Street

23 Payne Street

Lindsay Street near 5th

Glass Plate Negatives - Set 2

unknown location

Bird's Mill on South Chickamauga Creek

700 E. 4th St. - likely Edith Vance (mother) Elizabeth Vance (Daughter)

Grant University Football Team

107 Payne St. (now 607 Battery Pl.) - The Snodgrass & Field Lumber Yards

700 block of East 4th St. - The Snodgrass & Field Lumber Yards

South bank of Tennessee River

Glass Plate Negatives

unknown location

Payne Street (Battery Place)

Point Park - Lookout Mountain TN

551 Oak Street - Caleb Isbester House

White Oak Cemetery

Roof of D.B. Loveman's Store

1924 Panoramic View

Early View From Stringer's Ridge

Three Glass Plate Negatives

Dam Builders

The Boulevard

Market Street 1939 and 1917

Chattanooga Spring Festivals

Chattanooga Spring Festivals

Chattanooga Spring Festivals

Chattanooga Spring Festivals

Chattanooga Spring Festivals

Chattanooga Spring Festivals

Feb-60

1928 Plat Book

Buster Brown Hosiery

1902 & 1943

I Love a Parade!

The Customs House

City Scavenger

Chattanooga High School 1958 Calendar

Market Street 1975

Rhyne Pharmacy

1951 - American Lava Corp.

1938 Newspaper

Post-Urban Renewal / Pre-Revival

Standard Coosa Thatcher

1915 - Smog filled skyline

Forgotten Streets

75 years of the Chickamauga Dam

Miller Brothers Employees 1939

Cherry Street at 8th

Lithograph

Wild River

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Navigational Hazard - The Suck

Georgia State Line

Queen and Crescent Rail Yards

Signal Mountain Streetcar

1900 Looking East towards downtown

From North Chattanooga Looking South

Market Street 1907

Oak Street 1907

1907 Fountain Square

Looking North from Hotel Patten

Bustling City

The Hotel Patten

The Read House Hotel

Live and Let Live Drug Company

Hotels of the Gilded Age

The Incline Railway #2

The W Road

From the Dome Bldg. Looking West

1902 Panorama

Chattanooga from Lookout Mountain

1909 Panorama

1935 Topographic Map

1946 Along the Dixie Highway

1941 Plane Crash

What Remains

Brainerd and Beyond

Downtown Late 1950s aerial photo

Manufacturers Road

Zayre Department Store

Lookout Mountain Aerial View

Signal Mtn Road - Mid 1950s

1953 Aerial View

1955 North Market at Frazier & Cherokee

Mar-51

1960 - The Golden Gateway

Eastgate Mall

1962 vs. 2014

First Baptist Church

Chattanooga colorized aerial 1950s

Post Quartermaster

Transport Steamer Chickamauga

Sutlers Row

Redoubt Carpenter

Federal Bridge

Union Soldiers at Union Depot

Union Army Occupies Chattanooga

July 1864

1864 Soldiers at Union Depot

1864 Market Street

Assorted Postcards